Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
Optical multiplexing and demultiplexing utilizing the intrinsic physical properties of light has played a crucial role in high-capacity data storage and high-speed communications.
[...] A research team led by Prof. Dr. Zhang Wenfu from Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics (XIOPM) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) proposed a method for AM multiplexing and demultiplexing based on a dielectric metasurface. Employing the off-axis technique and spin photonic Hall effect, the orbital angular momentum (OAM) and spin angular momentum (SAM) multiplexing and demultiplexing can be achieved. The result was published in Advanced Optical Materials.
The OAM multiplexing and demultiplexing is via the off-axis technique and the SAM multiplexing and demultiplexing is based on the based on photonic spin Hall Effect in the anisotropic medium, which are integrated on a single-layer metasurface.
Moreover, the function of focusing for the output light has been integrated on the demultiplexer directly, which effectively improves the compactness of the system.
The proposed metadevice for AM multiplexing and demultiplexing shows a great potential for high-efficiency and high-capacity optical communication and can be integrated with other miniature system.
More information: Siqi Li et al. Efficient Optical Angular Momentum Manipulation for Compact Multiplexing and Demultiplexing Using a Dielectric Metasurface, Advanced Optical Materials (2020). DOI: 10.1002/adom.201901666
(Score: 2) by EETech1 on Tuesday March 24 2020, @10:31AM (8 children)
I'm gonna need a few weeks alone to figure out what that said..
Damn
(Score: 4, Funny) by Bot on Tuesday March 24 2020, @10:45AM (1 child)
He said that since you send photons around with fiber, you might also make them spin a bit so to convey even more porn... er information.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday March 24 2020, @10:50AM
The bandwidth gain will be used to broadcast Winnie the P... errrr... the Supreme Leader in very high definition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Tuesday March 24 2020, @10:46AM (4 children)
It said:
I.e. the Chinese are juggling with COVID19, building 2 hospitals in a week, and do this without losing their balls in technological research.
Meanwhile, the American researchers "work" from home - very likely on their grant applications; against the 2024 budget, no less, they just don't know it yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday March 24 2020, @11:16AM (2 children)
Publication History
Version of Record online:
19 February 2020
Manuscript revised:
18 January 2020
Manuscript received:
07 October 2019
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(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday March 24 2020, @11:33AM (1 child)
SARS-CoV-2 outbreak - Dec 2019. So at least the revision and publication were done during the outbreak.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday March 24 2020, @11:48AM
And the months or years of painstaking multiplexing and demultiplexing.
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(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 24 2020, @03:59PM
FTFY... but you're right about doing grant applications. The best minds wasting their most productive years writing proposals to get money to hire cheap labor to do some actual research.
(Score: 2) by Snospar on Tuesday March 24 2020, @10:53AM
Agreed, it's lines like this that convince me I really do live in the future:
(Bonus points if you notice that I corrected the sentence from the original... and that's made me realise I don't live that far into the future)
Huge thanks to all the Soylent volunteers without whom this community (and this post) would not be possible.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 24 2020, @09:47PM
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